Jean-Gabriel Pageau escaped injury when taking a deflected (by his own stick) shot in the jaw Friday night.
“I was lucky in my bad luck,” the Senators centre said at Canadian Tire Centre the next A.M. “I was kind of happy I felt good this morning.”
Not that any broken bones would have affected his plans for later that evening. You get the feeling the Senators centre would have gladly downed a pre-game soup through a straw to play against the Habs.
In his previous nine regular-season showdowns against Montreal he had five goals and two assists, despite averaging just 13:40 (he’s played less against only six other teams) of work in each.